In Forum: About You, Me and Everything Inbetween
By User: louisw3
Yeah used BBSes from 1988 until about 1994 .. Although I was not all that involved with the scene as I was young and my parents basically forbid any real world contact with people online..
So basically I muled stuff around, and was a ghost.. I never bothered emailing people or sysop chats or anything exciting like that.
Getting internet access in 1992 was such a big deal though, talk about opening worlds! University let me some of us CS slackers use some overloaded VAX but it was awesome.. we had usenet & ftp to consume our time. With the occasional MUD but I never got into that much as I was far too much of an Infocom purest. But it was on a BBS where I managed to get my first linux distro download (good old SLS!) as I managed to get a hold of Linux just before I got internet access.. It was a "magical" time being able to download your own UNIX that didn't have insane limitations, but at the same time was VERY unstable, feature poor but with things changing daily.
Believe it or not, but Linux back then didn't have any real networking!
I couldn't make heads or tails of the then new NetBSD or FreeBSD ... Oh well.
BBS stuff still floats around, its mostly old sysops and one off users and stuff... Synchronet is still thriving..
You can find a bunch of them here.
And of course there is all the MS-DOS doors, with tradewars 2002 being still somewhat popular these days.
Download SyncTerm and explore.
By User: louisw3
Yeah used BBSes from 1988 until about 1994 .. Although I was not all that involved with the scene as I was young and my parents basically forbid any real world contact with people online..
So basically I muled stuff around, and was a ghost.. I never bothered emailing people or sysop chats or anything exciting like that.
Getting internet access in 1992 was such a big deal though, talk about opening worlds! University let me some of us CS slackers use some overloaded VAX but it was awesome.. we had usenet & ftp to consume our time. With the occasional MUD but I never got into that much as I was far too much of an Infocom purest. But it was on a BBS where I managed to get my first linux distro download (good old SLS!) as I managed to get a hold of Linux just before I got internet access.. It was a "magical" time being able to download your own UNIX that didn't have insane limitations, but at the same time was VERY unstable, feature poor but with things changing daily.
Believe it or not, but Linux back then didn't have any real networking!
I couldn't make heads or tails of the then new NetBSD or FreeBSD ... Oh well.
BBS stuff still floats around, its mostly old sysops and one off users and stuff... Synchronet is still thriving..
You can find a bunch of them here.
And of course there is all the MS-DOS doors, with tradewars 2002 being still somewhat popular these days.
Download SyncTerm and explore.